Adventure ·Drama ·Romance ·Western · United States of America · 1940 · 1h 59m

Boom Town

Director

Cast

Clark Gable as Big John McMasters Spencer Tracy as Square John Sand Claudette Colbert as Betsy Bartlett Hedy Lamarr as Karen Vanmeer Frank Morgan as Luther Aldrich Lionel Atwill as Harry Compton

Crew

Harold Rosson — Director of Photography Blanche Sewell — Editor Franz Waxman — Original Music Composer John Lee Mahin — Screenplay James Edward Grant — Story Sam Zimbalist — Producer

Tagline

Where Men Are Rough And Tough . . . And Like Their Women The Same Way !

Synopsis

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

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